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Sowa, Timo. Understanding coverbal iconic gestures in shape descriptions. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka, 2006.

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Association, Minnesota Editorial. Great words of great men and women who shape public opinion. s.n., 1992.

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Craig, Lulu Alice. Glimpses of sunshine and shade in the far north, or, My travels in the land of the midnight sun. Editor Pub., 1987.

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Bertell, Maths, Frog, and Kendra Willson, eds. Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982635.

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Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum — a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among those peoples. The contributions to Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 ad address different aspects of cultural contacts around and across the Baltic from the perspectives of history, archaeology, linguistics, literary studies, religious studie

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Scheel, John R., and Diana L. Lam. Enhancing Mass on MRI. Edited by Christoph I. Lee, Constance D. Lehman, and Lawrence W. Bassett. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190270261.003.0032.

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The ACR BI-RADS Atlas defines a “mass” on MRI as a space-occupying lesion with convex borders. Masses are characterized by their morphology and their internal enhancement characteristics. Mass morphology descriptor categories include shape (oval, round, irregular), margins (circumscribed, irregular, spiculated), and internal enhancement (homogeneous, heterogeneous, rim enhancement, dark internal septations). Suspicious morphology descriptors of MRI masses include irregular shape, irregular or spiculated margins, and heterogeneous internal enhancement. This chapter, appearing in the section on

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Metcalf, Michael, John Reid, and Malcolm Cohen. Fortran 2018 enhancements to interoperability with C. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811893.003.0021.

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Some Fortran features were not available when interoperating with C; in particular, • optional dummy arguments, • assumed-length character dummy arguments, • assumed-shape arrays, • allocatable dummy arguments, and •pointer dummy arguments. Also, the frequent need to pass C pointers for low-level operations can lead to ugly code that is difficult to understand. Fortran 2018 addresses all of these issues. For optional arguments there are already widespread C programming idioms that can be followed, and so this is the simplest deficiency to correct. For all the other advanced Fortran features, t

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Sowa, T. Understanding Coverbal Ionic Gestures in Shape Descriptions. IOS Press, 2006.

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Shelley, Fred M. Nation Shapes. ABC-CLIO, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400689383.

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This book provides a concise and comprehensive description of all of the borders of every country in the contemporary world, including physical boundaries, their historical evolution, and border-related conflicts with other countries. Nation Shapes: The Story behind the World's Borders examines the importance of country boundaries, the disconnects between these borders, related factors such as cultures, religions, and economies, and how conflicts over boundaries between neighboring countries are articulated. The book is organized geographically and by region of the world: the Americas, Africa,

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Marbach, Joseph R., Ellis Katz, and Troy E. Smith. Federalism in America [2 volumes]. Greenwood Press, Inc., 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216190479.

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This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive reference explaining the major concepts, institutions, court cases, epochs, personalities, and policies that have shaped, or been shaped by, American federalism. It describes federalism's creation and evolution, and its influence on governmental institutions, procedures, and policies at the local, state, and national levels. The models used to explain the various historical eras in the development of federalism are also included. Over 430 topics relating to American federalism are described. Included are descriptions of how the major and minor institu

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Myers, Garth. Rethinking Urbanism. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204452.001.0001.

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This book asks two broad central questions: what has shaped contemporary urbanism and urbanization on the planet, and what are the shapes that urbanism and urbanization take? It tackles these questions in six content chapters. The first two chapters after the introduction address these central questions by analyzing discussions of processes and patterns of urbanism and urbanization. The other four chapters explore aspects of grand shaping forces: colonialism and imperialism; human migration and movement; trade and economic relationships; and policies and politics. It concentrates on Hartford,

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Parker, Emma Louise. The Importance of Outsiders to Pauline Communities. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567713827.

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This book argues that, despite Paul’s often dramatic and critical descriptions of non-Christians, his letters reveal a deep concern for the presence of outsiders and for their opinion of Christians. Parker suggests that outsiders are enormously important to Paul: they determine whether Christian communities dwindle or thrive, while also playing a key role in helping such communities to understand and shape their purpose as missional disciples, develop their thinking and practice around normal daily events and relationships – and even shape how they understand God. Parker offers a careful exege

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Dan, Joseph. The Narratives of Medieval Jewish History. Edited by Martin Goodman. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.013.0007.

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It is surprising to realize that no historian of Judaism wrote a history of the Middle Ages in Jewish history. Between 1923 and 1926 a Jewish historian, Shlomo Bernfeld, wrote a three-volume historical work, consisting mainly of an anthology of sources, entitled Sefer ha-Demaot, ‘The Book of Tears’. These volumes present a history of the Middle Ages up to the ‘Age of Reason’, which the author hoped would be the beginning of a new age in which the fate of the Jews would be different, yet this hope, he states in the end of his work, seems to have been unfounded. This article examines such narrat

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Brown, Howard G. The Thermidorians’ Terror. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190674793.003.0007.

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Following the parliamentary coup d’état of 9 Thermidor Year II, Thermidorian politicians and publicists developed an understanding of the “reign of terror” as a bloody and pervasive tyranny almost unprecedented in history. The Terror was given shape by a massive outpouring of printed descriptions and images of violence and personal suffering. This massive infusion of pathos into politics helped to magnify the psychological impact of the violence of 1793–94. The organizing strategies, images, and tropes used to represent violence during the Thermidorian period suggest that the suffering of indi

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Kislenko, Arne. Culture and Customs of Laos. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400635533.

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This all-encompassing volume offers a comprehensive look at the contemporary culture that defines this Southeast Asian country of Laos, examining everything from Buddhist traditions to Laotian cuisine. Coverage includes a brief history of the nation followed by in-depth narrative chapters on religion, literature, visual and performing arts, fashion, gender roles, everyday social customs, and more. Through illustrative descriptions of daily life, students will learn how traditional customs have shaped contemporary life in Laos today. Few other resources provide the same extensive coverage on cu

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Koenig, Sarah. Providence and the Invention of American History. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300251005.001.0001.

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In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. By 1897, Whitman was a national hero, celebrated in textbooks, monuments, and historical scholarship as the “Savior of Oregon.” But his fame was based on a tall tale — one that was about to be exposed. This book traces the rise and fall of Marcus Whitman's legend, revealing two patterns in the development of American history. On the one hand is providential history, marked by the conviction that God is an active agent in human history and

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Aldous, David E., and Ian H. Chivers. Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses. CSIRO Publishing, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643090019.

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Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses is a comprehensive reference for anyone involved with the selection and maintenance of grasses used in sports and amenity areas in all areas. It provides a means to identify these grasses through keys, descriptions and photographs, and also provides detailed information on sowing, oversowing, stolonising and mowing heights.  The performance of each grass is assessed and detailed comments made on positive and negative aspects of its use. A grass’s tolerance to high temperature, frost, drought, shade, wet soil, salinity, low soil fertility, wear and close mo

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Steane, Andrew. The Structure of Science, Part 2. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824589.003.0004.

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The discussion of the previous chapter is extended to the rest of science, especially biology. The Embodiment Principle is introduced. This is a statement intended to capture correctly how scientific descriptions interact and interconnect. The concept of reduction and reductionism is discussed, arguing that it does not amount to a replacement of one (higher-level) language by another (lower-level) one, but rather a recognition of both languages. The chapter then proceeds to biology. Darwinian evolution does not take place in a metaphysical vacuum, but rather explores the space of what is possi

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Herbert, Trevor, Martin V. Clarke, and Helen Barlow, eds. A History of Welsh Music. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009036511.

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From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, th

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Yacovazzi, Cassandra L. Uncle Tom and Sister Maria. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881009.003.0003.

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The two best-selling books in the US before the Civil War were Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery. On the surface, these two could not be more unalike. Stowe’s work dramatized the moral arguments of abolitionism, changing hearts and minds about slavery, while Monk’s book offered sensational anti-Catholicism. Yet the two works were stories of their age, each focusing primarily on female sexual purity, marriage, and the family. Abolition and anticonvent literature shocked readers with descriptions of rape, torn-apart marriages, and mother–child separations. Depicti

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Malik, Iftikhar. Culture and Customs of Pakistan. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400635656.

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Until now, in-depth cultural information on Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country formed in 1947 after the dissolution of British rule in India, has been scarce. This crucial South Asian hotspot, in the news for tensions with neighboring India over nuclear capacity and security issues, finally is illuminated for general readers. This narrative encapsulates the historical pluralistic traditions, such as religious practices, languages, and ethnosocial ties, that Pakistanis share with their neighbors. The coverage of culture and customs is contextualized throughout with the richness of the pas

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Hardy, Thomas, and Margaret R. Higonnet. The Return of the Native. Edited by Simon Gatrell. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537044.001.0001.

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‘To be loved to madness - such was her great desire’ Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness. Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and th

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Furnham, Adrian. New Psychology. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781399415606.

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An in-depth look at some of the newest issues in psychology and how they can shape our lives, at home and at work - from AI and eco-psychology, to the psychology of social media. Psychologists have always shone a torch into many dark corners of the human mind. They study everything, from art preferences to altruism, coaching to criminality, and justice to honesty. But in our hyper-connected, post-pandemic world, less-understood issues are now emerging, which can be unsettling for people who are trying to make sense of the many changes happening around them. The language of psychology offers cl

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Nalepa, Laurie, and Richard Pfefferman. The Murder Mystique. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400688430.

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Although they account for only ten percent of all murders, those attributed to women seem especially likely to captivate the public. This absorbing book examines why that is true and how some women, literally, get away with murder. Combining compelling storytelling with insightful observations, the book invites readers to take a close look at ten high-profile killings committed by American women. The work exposes the forces that underlie the public's fascination with female killers and determine why these women so often become instant celebrities. Cases are paired by motive—love, money, reveng

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Robinson, Mark. The World of Musicals. Greenwood, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216039068.

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This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans—and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production. Written with high school students in mind,The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Songencompasses not only Broadway and film musicals, but also made-for-television musicals, a genre that has been largely ignored. The two volumes cover significant musicals in easily accessible entries that offer both useful information and fun facts. Each entry lists the work's writers, composers, directors, choreographers, an

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Rosenberger, Robert, and Peter-Palu Verbeek, eds. Postphenomenological Investigations. Lexington Books, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978726208.

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Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to technologies. These studies provide deep descriptions of the ways technologies transform our abilities, augment our experience, and shape the world around us. This book proceeds with a preface by Don Ihde, po

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De Rújula, Alvaro. Enjoy Our Universe. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817802.001.0001.

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This book’s title is meant to be interpreted almost verbatim. “Enjoy” is its keyword, motivation, and spirit. Universe refers to all “observable things,” ranging in size from the entire cosmos to elementary particles, and bracketing other fundamental objects such as black holes. Observable things understandable by most people, that is, which excludes economics, politics, and other decreasingly alluring disciplines. And you can only enjoy our Universe, claims of “Multiverses” being so far closer to fiction than to science. In that spirit, only subjects that we understand fairly well are discuss

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199554072.001.0001.

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Any narrative of human action and adventure – whether we call it history or Romance – is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended.’ The fragility – and the durability – of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the ‘Marble Faun’, Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's ‘International Novel’ dramatizes the confrontation of the Old W

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Lambdin, Robert Thomas, and Laura Lambdin. Chaucer's Pilgrims. www.praeger.com, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216187332.

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature. The tales provide a glimpse of medieval life, and the professions of the pilgrims figure prominently in the poetry. To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's work, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this information has been difficult to locate. This reference work conveniently synthesizes and discusses information about the occupation of each of Chaucer's pilgrims and provides an historical context. The volume contains individual entries for each

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Matijas-Mecca, Christian. Listen to Psychedelic Rock! Greenwood, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400679827.

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Listen to Psychedelic Rock! contains more than 50 entries covering the people, records, places, and events that shaped one of the most exciting and influential periods in popular music. This addition to the Exploring a Music Genre series concentrates solely on psychedelic rock music. Listen to Psychedelic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre covers over fifty topics, arranged alphabetically, that are central to learning about psychedelic music and will enable readers to understand the breadth and ongoing influence of psychedelia through to the present day. The title contains biographical sketches o

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Mack, Glenn R., and Asele Surina. Food Culture in Russia and Central Asia. Greenwood Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400652431.

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Russia and the newly independent states of Central Asia are struggling to reassert or create national identities and are receiving fresh attention from the West. After decades of oblivion, the vast Eurasian continent is once again divulging its intense cultural heritage and foodways to the international community. The diversity of food cultures within the former Soviet Union, with more than 100 distinct nationalities, is overwhelming, but this book brilliantly distills the main elements of contemporary cuisine and food related customs for students and foodies. Vibrant descriptions of the legac

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Zola, Émile. The Sin of Abbé Mouret. Translated by Valerie Minogue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198736639.001.0001.

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‘I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.’ The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but his neglect of all physical needs leads to serious illness, followed by amnesia. No longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse Albine. Together, like a latter-day Adam and Eve, they roam through an Eden-like garden called the ‘Paradou’, seeking a forbidden tree in whose shade they will make love. Zola memorably

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Weissman, Myrna, and Jennifer Mootz, eds. Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197652084.001.0001.

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Abstract Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach describes the rapidly expanding global dissemination of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), including the development of new training, technologies, and the use of IPT all over the world and in diverse populations. This book covers training considerations, especially for task-shifted or lay providers, certification in delivery of IPT, use of technology for training and implementation, and the continuing evidence base of IPT. The book includes implementation in high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and humanitarian

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Terry, Michael, and Paul Goodman. Hockey Anatomy. Human Kinetics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718225312.

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Are you ready to see what it takes to lace up the skates? Hockey Anatomy will show you how to improve on-ice performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing efficiency of every movement. Dr. Michael Terry, the team physician for the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, and Paul Goodman, the strength and conditioning coach for the Chicago Blackhawks, share 96 of the most effective hockey exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations to show the muscles in action. You’ll also find 68 exercise variations to increase difficulty, add complex movements, or si

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Bruns, Roger. Finding Baseball’s Next Clemente. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400651342.

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This book examines what it takes for Latino youngsters to beat the odds, overcoming cultural and racial barriers—and a corrupt recruitment system—to play professional baseball in the United States. Latin Americans now comprise nearly 30 percent of the players in Major League Baseball (MLB). This provocative work looks at how young Latinos are recruited—and often exploited—and at the cultural, linguistic, and racial challenges faced by those who do make it. There are exposés of baseball camps where teens are encouraged to sacrifice education in favor of hitting and fielding drills and descripti

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Miller, Nicholas R. Social Choice Theory and Legislative Institutions. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1.

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This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.Narrowly understood, social choice theory is a specialized branch of applied logic and mathematics that analyzes abstract objects called preference aggregation functions, social welfare functions, and social choice functions. But more broadly, social choice theory identifies, analyzes, and evaluates rules that may be used to make collective decisions. So understood, social choice is a subfield of the social sciences that examines what may be called “

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Spencer, Stephen J. Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833369.001.0001.

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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays—primarily fear, anger, and weeping—were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal encyclicals, model sermons, chansons de geste, lyrics, and an array of theological and philosophical treatises. In addition to charting continuities

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Ward, Ralph D. The New Boardroom Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400690754.

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For generations, the cozy, standard model of boardroom leadership was simple: The CEO was also Chairman of the Board, and directors rubberstamped his initiatives. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act forced radical change on all U.S. public corporations: The board must now hold sessions without management, key committees have tough new independence rules, and all board members now face an unavoidable legal responsibility to provide truly independent oversight of the corporation. Missteps can put companies and individual directors in serious legal danger. The result is an urgent demand that corporate bo

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Newson, Lesley, and Peter Richerson. A Story of Us. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190883201.001.0001.

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It’s time for a new story of our origins. One reason is that there a great deal of new evidence about what humans are like and the conditions that shaped human evolution. Another is that the thinking on human evolution has shifted. Evolutionists recognize that humans are very different from other animals, and they have been working to explain the different evolutionary path that humans took. There are still many gaps in the story, but this book describes seven points in our ancestors’ tale and explains the evidence behind these descriptions. The story begins seven million years ago, with the l

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Ohi, Kevin. Inceptions. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294626.001.0001.

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The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that non-coincidence points to the text’s vexed relation with its outside. Hence the non-trivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work—its inability either to comprise its inception or to externalize it in an authorizing exteriority. In a different but related way does the fact that they must render our lives and our desires opaque to us; what Freud called “latency” marks not only sexuality but human thought with a self-division shaped by asy

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Issiyeva, Adalyat. Representing Russia's Orient. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190051365.001.0001.

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This book examines the musical ramifications of Russia’s nineteenth-century expansion to the east and south and explores the formation and development of Russian musical discourse on Russia’s own Orient. It traces the transition from music ethnography to art songs and discusses how various aspects of (music) ethnographies, folk song collections, music theories, and visual representations of Russia’s ethnic minorities, or inorodtsy, shaped Russian composers’ perception and musical representation of Russia’s oriental “others.” Situated on the periphery, minority peoples not only defined the geog

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Hayes, Patrick J., ed. Miracles. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400686283.

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Miracles give hope to the hopeless and exemplify the intersection of the divine and the mundane. They have shaped world history and continue to influence us through their presence in films, television, novels, and popular culture. This encyclopedia provides a unique resource on the philosophical, historical, religious, and cross-cultural conceptions of miracles that cut across denominational lines. Multidisciplinary in approach, this informative yet entertaining encyclopedia covers major aspects of miraculous phenomena through more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries that document how hum

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Trepulė, Elena, Airina Volungevičienė, Margarita Teresevičienė, et al. Guidelines for open and online learning assessment and recognition with reference to the National and European qualification framework: micro-credentials as a proposal for tuning and transparency. Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7220/9786094674792.

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These Guidelines are one of the results of the four-year research project “Open Online Learning for Digital and Networked Society” (2017-2021). The project objective was to enable university teachers to design open and online learning through open and online learning curriculum and environment applying learning analytics as a metacognitive tool and creating open and online learning assessment and recognition practices, responding to the needs of digital and networked society. The research of the project resulted in 10 scientific publications and 2 studies prepared by Vytautas Magnus university

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Smalley, Betsy Keefer, and Jayne E. Schooler. Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216024194.

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Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts. This book provides parents and professionals with sound advice on how to communicate effectively about difficult and sensitive topics, providing concrete strategies for helping adopted and foster children make sense of the past so they can enjoy a healthy, well-adjusted future. Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma, attachment difficulties, and/or issues stemming from the adoption process. Common complicating

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Boyce, Lee, and Melody Schoenfeld. Strength Training for All Body Types. Human Kinetics, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781718241060.

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Every person's body is different. Short, tall, or big all over, training should be designed to accommodate an athlete's different joint angles, bone lengths, and overall body structure. In Strength Training for All Body Types: The Science of Lifting and Levers, Lee Boyce and Melody Schoenfeld have teamed up to create a unique resource that explains how different bodies manage various exercises and how to best take advantage of physical attributes to optimize those movements. Strength Training for All Body Types covers 13 body types: • Tall • Short • Big all over • Short arms and long legs • Sh

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